Although when you look at the larger picture, the only guy that comes close to fitting the “white square-jawed hero type” without looking like he might become one of the bad guys is Peter. Sure, the cop is white, but he’s all fat. The Artist is Latino. The politician is a scumbag, and potentially an evil scumbag.

I googled “heroes racist” to see if these keywords would bring up any similar views to what i have after watching this show and now i see i’m not alone. Whether intentional or subconscious, it APPEARS to be a racially skewed show. I love the show and looked forward to it coming on weeks before it aired. It’s the only show I watch and it has replaced my wife’s “reality TV” obsessions and even her Grey’s Anatomy thing.

Anyway, it didn’t occur to me until last night that SO FAR there isn’t one African American hero. Actually, I questioned why the black male characters would be a villain(with no speaking parts) and a criminal that the Caucasian woman blames for her the violence done by her other side LOL… reminiscent of that murder case a while back where the white lady killed her kids or something like that and orignally blamed it on some phantom black guy. Then the black woman is kind of up for grabs sexually.

Now, the absentee criminal black father is coming back with the power to walk through walls… will he become a hero or a villain? I don’t know. I do know that his power sucks. Shadowcat was never my favorite X-man. And the mute black memory sapper isn’t too exciting either.

There are no latinos, right? Or maybe the black lady is. Actually, either of the black men could come from a latin country and thereby be Latino, right? Right. So, who knows.

The Hindu dude…no powers.

The Japanese guy…my wife’s favorite… has an awesome power, but as stated above, he doesn’t quite fit the classic hero phenotype…strong square jaw, tall, muscular. He’s also a little funny guy. He and his partner are like the star wars droids.

No aborigines…lol

I guess you could go on for days on who’s not represented. It’s a shame that it has to matter or that you have to have perfect racially symmetry to tell a story without protests, but the fact remains that there has been a lot of racial inequality, sterotyping, and such that leave people with unfair, inaccurate impressions of others and themselves based on race. This all began with malicious intent and now it’s part of the program running beneath our conscious thinking. So, who knows if the writers meant to write the story that way. Maybe things will even up as the story goes on. But as it looks right now with my SUPER RACE RAY VISION SPECS on, it’s looking bad.

But… the show is entertaining =D. Did you see the way the dominant white alpha male muscular handsome squarejawed charismatic self-assured lady-killing politician escaped the bad guys? He just shot off into the sky…**POP**…did a right angle turn in mid air and landed at a cafeteria in the desert… He’s the greatest…He could be president.

Whay is it that every time you see a black an whit couple it’s a black woma to a white man and seldom the main point of the show, but if it’s a black man to a white woman it’s a primaty issuse or done for shock value? It it to say that black man can be lloked up to but white men can be?

Additionally, notice tht every commercial that has black people have a dispropotionate number of overweight black people to slim white people?

I hope you like it and I think we’ll start a thread on tuesdays to gab about the show if people are so inclined. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Since I’m already hooked on STUDIO 60, I’ll hit NBC a little earlier on Monday nights and give HEROES four episodes (unless I can’t make it that far), so that’s one month.

I’m trusting you, and considering your job, I appreciate your responses.

That mirror bit with the blonde woman was creepy!

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